salad days

Insult

2009-12-13T05:52:30Z

[Overheard] - Hey! Lets make everything really messy! Engage: Freakish Supersonic Mum Hearing Activate: Fun Spoiling App - NO! - What? We didn't! - Do not make everything messy please. - Why? - Because... just play nicely with your toys. Don...

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I am a bit of an arse

2009-12-12T07:06:21Z

Sitting on the sofa in the corner of a wonderfully chaotic 4th birthday party yesterday, my eyes scanned the room for my 5-minutely head count of children belonging to me. One... hmm, where's the other one? And bugger, the front door is open. "M...

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InterNational Day

2009-12-05T13:12:39Z

Wednesday 2nd December marked 38 years since the founding of The United Arab Emirates. This was celebrated in a big way, mostly with flags, fancy dress and decorating your car. Sprog's nursery joined in the fun with their very own InterNational ...

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Camping

2009-11-29T18:12:13Z

We went camping! We left at camel's fart to drive up the Mussendam Peninsular and over the border into Oman. (I texted "Good morning campers!" to the other two families going, but sadly when you camp with a Filipino, an American, a Kiwi and a Fi...

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I'm having a busy week.

2009-11-23T08:47:14Z

Off to a birthday party when Wilf wakes up. Swimming this evening. Big supermarket shop tomorrow morning ready for Eid holiday, then another birthday party in the afternoon. Running in the evening. Wednesday is craziness. I have to do the scho...

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Du it yourself

2009-11-22T11:17:21Z

We have a shiny new Metro. Oooooh. The metro stations tend to be attached to shopping malls, so the malls have started to charge for parking stays longer than four hours to avoid a car park clogged by park'n'riders. Generous of them. Not. Actu...

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Norah fails to blog every day shock!!!!

2009-11-21T07:49:16Z

I know. I am as astounded as you are. You'll fall off your chair when I admit that I haven't lost half a stone or finished my Christmas shopping either. At the beginning of the month I fudged a couple of the dates so it looked like I'd blogged...

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Wailing Wilf

2009-11-19T10:37:35Z

It takes about 40 minutes to drive to Sprog's nursery. On a good day with no traffic (ha!) you might zoom there in 20 minutes with a bit of luck and a following wind. On bad days it has taken me as long as an hour and 10 minutes, one way. There...

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Norah no-mates

2009-11-17T15:52:43Z

It is the evening of my girls' night in. Today I have had cancellation after cancellation after cancellation. Of the 13 people I invited, four are coming. Of those four... S can only stay for an hour C can't arrive until late (and I suspect won'...

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I am mortified

2009-11-17T10:21:04Z

On my way to the supermarket, some idiot pulled out in front of me causing me to brake quite hard. Well, fairly hard anyway. I spread my arms wide, palms to the ceiling in a grand universal gesture of "what the fuck??!" The moron driving sort o...

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